Embed pdf to Word Document

[vasundhara0494]

I am not able to embed pdf files to the word document as oleObject. Neither am I able to embed text files. Excel/doc/ppt/docx/pptx files are easily embedded though. Is there any compatibility issue with embedding Non-ms Office files?

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[FBnil]

@vasundhara0494 can you give me some example code for the embedding? I suspect a mimetype problem.

[FBnil]

@vasundhara0494 Can you write a small example how you load and embed the files?

Meanwhile, can you edit ./src/PhpWord/Element/Object.php around line 73:

    public function __construct($source, $style = null)
    {
        $supportedTypes = array('xls', 'doc', 'ppt', 'xlsx', 'docx', 'pptx', 'pdf');
        $pathInfo = pathinfo($source);

        if (file_exists($source) && in_array($pathInfo['extension'], $supportedTypes)) {
            $ext = $pathInfo['extension'];
            if (strlen($ext) == 4 && strtolower(substr($ext, -1)) == 'x') {
                $ext = substr($ext, 0, -1);
            }

            $this->source = $source;
            $this->style = $this->setNewStyle(new ImageStyle(), $style, true);
            $this->icon = realpath(__DIR__ . "/../resources/{$ext}.png");

            return $this;
        } else {
            throw new InvalidObjectException();
        }
    }

Add 'pdf' to the array of supported Ole's...
You will also need to create ./src/PhpWord/resources/pdf.png (copy it from doc.png for now)

And then try again...

[vasundhara0494]

@FBnil I have made the following changes:

• Created ./src/PhpWord/resources/pdf.png

• Added 'pdf' in .\src\PhpWord\Element\Object.php at line 73:

public function __construct($source, $style = null)
    {
        $supportedTypes = array('xls', 'doc', 'ppt', 'xlsx', 'docx', 'pptx', 'pdf');
        /** rest of the function **/
    }

• In .\src\PhpWord\Media.php inside function public static function addElement($container, $mediaType, $source, Image $image = null) around line 92 (case 'object'):

case 'object':
				if(false !== strpos($source, ".pdf"))
				{
					$target =  $source;
				}
				else{
                    $target = "{$container}_oleObject{$mediaTypeCount}.bin";
				}
                    break;

Instead of creating binary I have tried to put the pdf file as it is.

• In .\src\PhpWord\Writer\Word2007.php around line 299, added content type of pdf:

private function registerContentTypes($media)
    {
        foreach ($media as $medium) {
            $mediumType = $medium['type'];
            if ($mediumType == 'image') {
                $extension = $medium['imageExtension'];
                if (!isset($this->contentTypes['default'][$extension])) {
                    $this->contentTypes['default'][$extension] = $medium['imageType'];
                }
            }elseif ($mediumType == 'object') {
				if (!isset($this->contentTypes['default']['pdf'])) {
                    $this->contentTypes['default']['pdf'] = 'application/pdf';
                }
				
	
				if (!isset($this->contentTypes['default']['bin'])) {
                    $this->contentTypes['default']['bin'] = 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.oleObject';
                }

            }
        }
    }

• In .\src\PhpWord\Writer\Word2007\Part\Rels.php around line118

private function writeRel(XMLWriter $xmlWriter, $relId, $type, $target, $targetMode = '')
    {
        if ($type != '' && $target != '') {
            if (strpos($relId, 'rId') === false) {
                $relId = 'rId' . $relId;
            }
			
			if( strpos( $target, ".pdf" ) !== false ) //added by vasu
			{
				$type = 'officeDocument/2006/relationships/package';
			}
/*** rest of the function ****/

I have tried making the same changes for .docx and .pptx and was able to embed those (which was not happening previously) but it is still not happening for .pdf and .txt.

[FBnil]

@vasundhara0494 Wow, thanks for so much information. I embedded a pdf the normal way in LibreOffice, and found that the mime is as follows:

instead of application/pdf, try
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.oleObject

[vasundhara0494]

@FBnil Tried that too. Not working!

[tglines]

@vasundhara0494 @FBnil @RomanSyroeshko is anyone able to use PHPWord for pdf embeddings inside of Word successfully? We'd like to use this library instead of others out there but I'd like to know that it works.

[FBnil]

@tglines
I gave up last month after trying for a day. Code has to be added to phpword for this to work. It seemed straight forward, it but wasn't.

http:https://phpword.readthedocs.io/en/latest/elements.html#objects

[troosan]

this is going to be difficult to investigate for me as I'm having the following issue:
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac/suggestions/13608015-when-importing-pdf-into-word-2016-for-mac-allow-c